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22-568: Since the 1970 election , marking the beginning of democratic fair representation ( one vote, one value ) and ending decades of pro-rural electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander , Labor have won 11 of the 15 elections. Spanning 16 years and 4 terms, Labor was last in government from the 2002 election until the 2018 election . Jay Weatherill led the Labor government since a 2011 leadership change from Mike Rann . During 2013 it became

44-628: A Federal Senate seat for the Liberal Movement in 1974 (and was re-elected in 1975), serving in the Senate for three years before resigning his position. His replacement as the Liberal Movement Senator for South Australia was Janine Haines , who would subsequently become the initial Australian Democrats Senator. A 1971 Adelaide by-election was triggered as a result of the death of the incumbent MP. Labor easily retained

66-511: A majority, the balance of power rested with long-serving independent Tom Stott , a good friend of former Premier Playford and no friend of Labor. As expected, Stott announced his support for the LCL, thus making Hall the new Premier. If just 21 LCL votes were Labor votes in the seat of Murray , Labor would have formed majority government . Hall was embarrassed that his party was in a position to win power despite finishing seven points behind Labor on

88-723: A national level, and after the 1904 Chris Watson minority government the world's second Labor Party government at a national level. Known as the United Labor Party of South Australia until 1917, the Australian Labor Party at both a state/colony and federal level pre-dates, among others, both the British Labour Party and the New Zealand Labour Party in party formation, government, and policy implementation. Thirteen of

110-429: Is the state's longest-serving Deputy Premier. (1892–1897) (1893–1901) (1893–1909) (1901–1917) (1905–1918) (1915–1926) (1930–1933) (1933–1946) (1918–1949) (1953–1979) (2002–2018) Note: Following the 2014 election , the Labor minority government won the 2014 Fisher by-election which took them to 24 of 47 seats and therefore majority government . Prior to

132-583: The 1892 East Adelaide by-election on 23 January, becoming the first official Labor leader and member of the House of Assembly. Prior to party creation, South Australian politics had lacked parties or solid groupings, although loose liberal and conservative blocs had begun to develop by the end of the 1880s. The 1893 election was the first general election Labor would stand at, resulting in liberal and conservative leaning MPs beginning to divide, additionally with unidentified groupings and independents, as well as

154-499: The 1906 double dissolution election , with Labor falling just two seats short of a majority. So successful, John Verran led Labor to form the state's first of many majority governments at the 1910 election , just two weeks after the 1910 federal election where their federal counterparts formed Australia's first elected majority in either house in the Parliament of Australia , the world's first Labor Party majority government at

176-598: The 2018 election , a Labor MP became an independent, reducing them back to a minority 23 seats. 1970 South Australian state election Steele Hall Liberal and Country League Don Dunstan Labor State elections were held in South Australia on 30 May 1970. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League led by Premier of South Australia Steele Hall

198-526: The Downer conservative government. Kingston served as Premier for a then-record of six and a half years, usually implementing legislation with Labor support. Thomas Price formed the state's first Labor minority government and the world's first stable Labor Party government at the 1905 election with the support of several non-Labor MPs to form the Price-Peake administration , which was re-elected at

220-503: The 'u' in their spelling of Labour) with John McPherson the founding secretary. Four months later, Labor enjoyed immediate success, electing David Charleston , Robert Guthrie and Andrew Kirkpatrick to the South Australian Legislative Council . A week later, Richard Hooper won the 1891 Wallaroo by-election as an Independent Labor member in the South Australian House of Assembly . McPherson won

242-492: The 1900s, Don Dunstan in the 1970s, John Bannon in the 1980s, and Mike Rann in the 2000s. A United Trades and Labor Council meeting with the purpose of creating an elections committee was convened on 12 December 1890, and held on 7 January 1891. The elections committee was formed, officially named the United Labor Party of South Australia (unlike state Labor, prior to 1912 their federal counterparts included

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264-646: The Hall government, leading to an early election and the expected loss to Labor. Stott did not contest the 1970 election. Hall remained Leader of the Opposition for two years before resigning from the LCL, claiming that the Party had 'lost its idealism [and] forgotten...its purpose for existence'. He founded the Liberal Movement , a progressive Liberal party that included about 200 former LCL members. Hall won

286-471: The Playmander at the 1965 election under Frank Walsh , but the malapportionment was strong enough that Labor only won 21 seats—just enough for a majority—despite taking 54.3 percent of the two-party vote. At the 1968 election , Labor, now led by Don Dunstan won 53.2 percent of the two-party vote. However, Labor lost two seats to the LCL under Playford's successor, Hall. With the LCL one seat short of

308-470: The longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history, and in addition went on to win a fourth four-year term at the 2014 election . After losing the 2018 election , the party spent 4 years in opposition before leader Peter Malinauskas led the party to a majority victory in the 2022 election . Labor's most notable historic Premiers of South Australia include Thomas Price in

330-428: The most populous metropolitan seats still containing double the number of voters than the least populous rural seats. However, while there was still rural overweighting, Adelaide now elected a majority of the legislature, making it a near-certainty that Labor would win the next election. Conventional wisdom was that Hall was effectively handing the premiership to Dunstan at the next election. A 1968 Millicent by-election

352-552: The nineteen parliamentary Labor leaders have served as Premier of South Australia : Thomas Price (1905–1909), John Verran (1910–1912), Crawford Vaughan (1915–1917), John Gunn (1924–1926), Lionel Hill (1926–1927 and 1930–1931; expelled from party but continued as Premier until 1933), Frank Walsh (1965–1967), Don Dunstan (1967–1968 and 1970–1979), Des Corcoran (1979), John Bannon (1982–1992), Lynn Arnold (1992–1993), Mike Rann (2002–2011), Jay Weatherill (2011–2018) and Peter Malinauskas (2022–Present) . Robert Richards

374-547: The state's population. This system was popularly known as the " Playmander ," since it allowed Thomas Playford to remain Premier of South Australia for 26 years. In the latter part of Playford's tenure, the LCL could only hope to win a few seats in Adelaide. However, the LCL's grip on the country areas was such that it was able to retain power when it lost by substantial margins in terms of raw votes. Labor finally overcame

396-401: The subsequent formation of the staunchly anti-Labor National Defence League . The voluntary turnout rate increased from 53 to 68 percent, with Labor on 19 percent of the vote, and 10 Labor candidates including McPherson and Hooper were elected to the 54-member House of Assembly which gave Labor the balance of power . The Kingston liberal government was formed with the support of Labor, ousting

418-456: The two-party vote. Concerned by the level of publicity and public protest about the issue, Hall was committed to the principle of a fairer electoral system. He enacted a system that expanded the House of Assembly to 47 seats—28 of which were located in Adelaide, an increase of 15 metropolitan seats, more than double. The reforms fell short of " one vote one value ," as Labor had demanded, since country areas were still somewhat over-represented, with

440-811: Was Premier in 1933 while leading the rebel Parliamentary Labor Party of MPs who had been expelled in the 1931 Labor split ; he would later be readmitted and lead the party in opposition. Bannon is Labor's longest-serving Premier of South Australia , ahead of Rann and Dunstan by a matter of weeks. Every Labor leader for more than half a century has gone on to serve as Premier. Since the position's formal introduction in 1968, seven parliamentary Labor deputy leaders have served as Deputy Premier of South Australia : Des Corcoran (1968 and 1970–1979), Hugh Hudson (1979), Jack Wright (1982–1985), Don Hopgood (1985–1992), Frank Blevins (1992–1993), Kevin Foley (2002–2011), John Rau (2011–18) and Susan Close (2022– Present). Foley

462-623: Was defeated by the Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Don Dunstan . The LCL had formed the government of South Australia for 35 of the previous 38 years due to a malapportionment favouring country areas over the Adelaide area. Deliberately inequitable electoral boundaries resulted in a country vote being worth twice a vote in Adelaide, even though Adelaide accounted for two-thirds of

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484-462: Was triggered by the Court of Disputed Returns where Labor had won the seat by a single vote at the 1968 election. Labor increased their margin. Notably, turnout increased at the by-election. In early 1970, Hall and Stott fell out over the location of a dam. Stott wanted the dam built in his electorate while Hall thought it more use to locate it elsewhere. Constituent anger forced Stott to vote against

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